pig farmer
Raises pigs professionally
A pig farmer raises pigs, typically for meat production.
The term is straightforward—someone whose livelihood involves breeding, feeding, and selling swine.
Pig farming ranges from small family operations to large industrial facilities: His grandfather was a pig farmer in Iowa.
The work involves managing breeding cycles, animal health, and eventual slaughter or sale.
- boarUndomesticated male swine
- penInk-filled writing tool
- pigmanKeeper of hogs
- hog farmLivestock facility for swine
- farrowingSow giving birth
mud wallow · hog · barn · sow · wallow · weaning · slop · feed · livestock market · gilt · disease prevention · manure · breeding · animal husbandry · squealing · bacon · vaccination · pork
- farmersgrower, smallholder, cultivator, rancher, homesteader
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- food producersbaker, butcher, fisherman, brewer, cheesemaker
- livestock workerscowboy, rancher, cattleman, cowherd, cowhand
- rural jobsrancher, shepherd, farmhand, cowherd, dairyman
- rural peoplevillagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers, rancher
pig farmercattle rancher
One who raises bovines
sheep farmer · dairy farmer · goat farmer · horse breeder · fish farmer
pig farmercrop farmer
One who cultivates plants
grain farmer · city dweller · food critic · wheat farmer · vegetarian